"Mid Winter" by Ella Fillmore Lillie, (Amer., 1887-1973) Engraving

"Mid Winter" by Ella Fillmore Lillie, (Amer., 1887-1973) EngravingSilkscreen in color, ca. 1940's 60's, Ed. ca. 50?, 12 1 16 x 15 1 4, signed in ink in image at lower right, on cream wove paper. Ella Fillmore Lillie was born in Minnesota and began her art education there. She headed east, attending the Art institute of Chicago, and New York School of Fine Arts, studying with Ambrose Webster and Kenneth Hayes Miller. She worked with master printer George Miller in creating her many fine atmospheric lithographs, but

when we're talking "Heads on a Platter"

on stiff cream wove paper

His fine color prints are distinguished by their beautiful color harmonies and painterly use of aquatint

An earlier Italian subject by the artist based on studies from a five year European tour with his wife in the late 1880's

on thin fibrous cream laid simili japan paper

full margins with irregular left edge as printed on a sheet torn from an antique ledger

His architectural subjects manifest a fascination with pattern

California

Light and Shade

Hewit was a modernist painter and printmaker based in Ohio who spent time in Provincetown and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy

the exact subject of which after much sleuthing has still eluded me

Despite these flaws one of Moran's most beautiful southwestern prints in a crisp